Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Perseveres Struggles, Opportunity Digs Marquette Island and We Look Back

Lou Anders reports on Comic Con

Time Magazine article on Listening for Aliens discusses Gregory and James Benford's SETI research

B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Alasdair Gray's Old Men in Love

Seattle Times: Nisi Shawl reviews Karen Lord, Eleanor Arnason, Amelia Beamer

Chicago Sun-Times profiles Nnedi Okorafor

The Agony Column interviews Brian and Wendy Froud

Black Gate reports from Readercon

Locus Online editorial blog: Websites, Magazines, and Everything in Between

NY Times: Sarah Lyall profiles China Miéville

The Speculative Literature Foundation is now open for its 2010 Gulliver Travel Grant , an $800 award to cover travel costs for research needed for a writing project

Wall Street Journal: Martin Morse Wooster reviews Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection

The A.V. Club profiles H.G. Wells under its heading Gateways to Geekery (previous subjects include The Twilight Zone, J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, and H.P. Lovecraft)

Salon posts Paul Di Filippo's review of Jules Verne's The Castle in Transylvania (from B&N)

io9: Paul Kincaid wonders Why are three of this year's Hugo nominees about the decline of America? (from Big Other)

NY Times: Amazon says e-books now outsell hardcovers

New site Gestalt Mash features debut posts by Richard Kadrey, Rhys Hughes, Matthew Cheney (reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman issue-by-issue), and Elena Nola & Jay Tomio (reading George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones chapter-by-chapter)

This is zeppelin week at Lightspeed, with fiction by Genevieve Valentine, an author spotlight on her, and nonfiction by Gregory K. H. Bryant about airships

Wall Street Journal interviews Rick Moody, author of forthcoming The Four Fingers of Death, "a sequel of sorts" to his breakthrough novel The Ice Storm

Realms of Fantasy has a new Folkroots editor